An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-12-11T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:28.942Z

Reserved: 2016-08-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6614

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-11T02:59:20.970

Modified: 2018-07-08T01:29:00.677

Link: CVE-2016-6614

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